Edirol (Roland) UA-1A

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Hi all. This is my first post, so I hope that I come across as understandable.

I'm doing some mixing on the local college campus ... it's mainly light mixes of music recitals and concerts for the school music department.

Right now, I'm using an Edirol UA-1A as an input to my laptop. The UA-1A just bypasses the soundcard (through the USB port) for no-hiss recordings. It works pretty well. The only problem is...

Once you plug in the UA-1A to the USB port, you lose the ability to control the amount of gain on your recording. I'm trying to go from a DAT output (non-digital) through the UA-1A to my laptop.

Does anyone know how to FORCE the laptop to raise the gain on a USB input device?

Thanks in advance!

-WinonaMix
 
don't they make a similar device with digital i/o for about the same price?
 
RE: digital for same price

The adapter I've got, the UA-1A, cost $79. It's analog, but it seems to do the trick. (At least for now while I'm just starting out.)

The UA-1D adapter is a 16-bit digital USB interface. It costs $95.

Now that I look back on my purchase, I wish I would have spent the extra $16 and gotten the digital interface. It might have saved a lot of headaches in the future.

Still, does anyone know how to force the gain when using an adapter like this?

Thanks,
WinonaMix
 
RE: Why a DAT?

This is kind of a tricky/detailed answer.

Although I'm starting to get business that involves live mixing and recording down to a single source, a lot of the work I'm getting involves taking audio from a DAT and burning it onto CDs (after cleaning up the audio, creating tracks, etc.).

I'm finding that the DAT produces a lot of noise and I'm needing to remove it with Cool Edit Pro.

-WinonaMix
 
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